Monthly Archives: September 2004

No Thumbnail

Artist Services Open House

The DTW Artist Services Open House is a great opportunity to meet members of the DTW Programming staff and gain first hand knowledge of the many administrative, technical, promotional and production related support programs they offer. Admission is FREE. Tuesday, October 5, 2004 5:30-7:30pm at

No Thumbnail

art ain’t cheap

Normally we don’t talk too much about the visual art world over here at Culturebot. But George over at Superfluities has an interesting essay on the MOMA decision to up their entry fees from $12 to $20. He makes some interesting points about the difference

No Thumbnail

tesla the coil, not the band

Before Tesla was a lame hair band, there was the eccentric genius scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla. His life was the subject of a cool play called Requiem for Tesla by the Austin, TX theater company Rude Mechanicals and now Tesla’s flashiest invention, the Tesla

No Thumbnail

Origins of P.S. 122

I recently got a great e-mail from Peter Rose, one of the co-founders of Performance Space 122. He is in Berlin, but he still follows what we’re doing here and he wanted to get a message out to people about the origins of the space.

No Thumbnail

Steven Cosson

Steven Cosson is the Artistic Director of The Civilians. Founded in 2001, The Civilians is a company that creates original work from investigations into real life. Cited as “New York’s most giddily sociological theater company” by New York Magazine, and ranked in both of Time

No Thumbnail

become a culturebot

Speaking of discounts, (see earlier post “day of atonement”) – Culturebot regularly sends out emails about special ticket discounts and comp/preview ticket offers that we hear about. We posted the one about Symphonie Fantastique, but usually we only email those offers to the Culturebots. If

No Thumbnail

Greetings From Ho-Land, Part Eight

Hello, faithful Culturebot readers. In case you’ve been getting a little bored with my typical format of pretending to talk about theater and instead talking solely about myself and how I manage to embarrass myself in front of Dutch people, I have thoughtfully provided something

No Thumbnail

day of atonement

So, this being NYC and all, there are going to be a lot of people out there who are observing Yom Kippur on Friday and Saturday. Which means that theaters will have lots of tickets available. This is a good weekend to do some research

No Thumbnail

save the date

Hello Culturebots! Just a quick note that we’re currently planning the first-ever Culturebot Happy Hour for Monday, October 18th. It’ll be a chance to drink(!), mingle with other culturati and watch a very few “microperformances” out of the corner of your eye. (microperformance = 5

No Thumbnail

in context

If there’s one thing I, Culturebot, have learned from my misadventures in performance, both onstage and off, it’s: location, location, location! Or, more exactly, context, context, context! As artists we’re always looking for the next best opportunity, the next chance to take what we’re doing

No Thumbnail

designer for hire

I, Culturebot, must pause from our normally scheduled arts coverage to give a shout-out to Dan “Ultrasparky” Rhatigan, the designer who made Culturebot possible. He not only designed this site, he designed the WYSIWYG Talent Show site, he regular designs images for various Culturebot/WYSIWYG/P.S. 122

No Thumbnail

glbt fest in philly

The Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival is currently accepting submissions for it’s 3rd annual festival which will take place June 9th – 19th throughout various locations in Philadelphia. Submissions may include full length plays, musicals, one-acts, one-person shows, young audience plays, monologues and cabarets.